If your record collections disagree violently

A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners, a two- or three-page multiple-choice document that covered all the music/film/TV/books bases. [...] it was intended to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might, at a later date, turn out to have every Julio Iglesias record ever made. [...] But there was an important and essential truth contained in the idea, and the truth was that these things matter, and it's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently, or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. [...] If I had given Marie a questionnaire, she would have hit me with it. [...] We had one of those conversations where everything clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement. [...] The evening goes with that sort of breathtaking joke precision, where you can kind of see what´s supposed to happen but you can't believe it's ever going to get there, even though afterwards is seems obvious.

Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, page 99.